{"id":642040,"date":"2010-01-25T11:03:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001255"},"modified":"2010-01-25T11:04:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:04:21","slug":"cant-find-a-companys-physical-address-check-their-privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/642040","title":{"rendered":"Can’t Find A Company’s Physical Address? Check Their Privacy Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some websites make it nearly impossible to find any kind of contact information for reaching a real human. In that case, you can click over to a link that all are required to have but few customers ever read: their privacy policy.<\/p>\n

By law, any website that collects data from its users is required to post a privacy policy, and all privacy policies are required to display a physical address to send mail to.<\/p>\n

You can also then use that address in databases to track down other contact information associated with it, like a live phone number.<\/p>\n

“It’s a good way to find a physical address and one step in tracking down real, live humans to help with unresolved issues,” writes reader Terry. “Just one of my methods of finding a human who can get things done.”<\/p>\n

What techniques do you use to track down elusive company contact information?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some websites make it nearly impossible to find any kind of contact information for reaching a real human. In that case, you can click over to a link that all are required to have but few customers ever read: their privacy policy. By law, any website that collects data from its users is required to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2340,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2H1u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}